Xuxu - Liqueur of Strawberry

Xuxu

• Producer             : Georg Hemmeter Gmbh., Munich - Germany
• Category              : Liqueur
• Alc. Vol                 : 15 %vol
• Common Serve : Straight-up(shooter), On the rocks.
• Content In          : Strawberry Caipi

Xuxu is a liqueur of strawberries, vodka and some lime. It’s has an alcoholic content of 15% and 66% parts of fresh fruits. Xuxu has no granulated sugar and receives its sweetness only by natural fructose.

 A strawberry is strictly spoken noberry, it is an accessory fruit. It is a fruits where the fleshy pat is derived not from the ovary but from the adjacent tissue. The red part is a thick flesh on which small, hard nuts are growing. Once you are washing the strawberry these small nuts fall off the dents of the strawberry.     

     

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Sandeman

• Product            : Pernod – ricard
• Category          : Oloroso
• Alcohol conten : 15%
• Glassware without ice: Sherry

  

Sandeman cream  is an oloroso sherry, a white wine strengthened with Spanish Brandy (up to 18%) and  matured  by the so-called “solera-System” and with additons of sweet wines from pedro Ximenez  or Moscatel grapes.

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Tio Pepe

• Producer             : Gonzales Byass, Jerez de la Frontera
• Category             : Sherry
• Sub-Category      : Fino
• Alcohol Content  : 15% Vol
• Glass For Service: Sherry Glass

  

Tio Pepe Is a sherry. Sherry defins itself as white wine, (mainly from the palomino grape). Strengthened with adding Spanish brandy (up to 18%) and matured by the so-called (Solera System).

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Myers's Rum

Mayer's Dark Rum

Myers's Rum

• Producer             : Diageo PLC.
• Category            : Spirits - Rum
• Sub Category     : Dark Rum
• Alcohol Content : 40%

Myers's Rum is a brand of Jamaican dark rum produced by Diageo PLC.

Named after brand founder Fred L Myers, the molasses-derived blend of up to nine rums has been produced since 1879. According to the Diageo web site, Myer's rum uses only "pure Jamaican molasses" and is "produced from continuous and pot still distillation and is then matured for up to four years on white oak barrels".

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Martini D'Oro

Martini d’Oro

• Producer                    : Martini&Rossi, Torino - Italy
• Category                   : Vermouth
• Sub Category            : d’Oro
• Alcohol Content        : 9% Vol
• Glassware;

With  ice          : Martini Glass

Straight up      : Sherry Glass

Martini d’Oro is sweet vermouth, a white wine fortified with herbs and  species. Which receive  its bitter taste from the herb of the common worm wood (Artemisia absinthium). Martini d’Oro has an alcohol content of  9%  and contains 170 gr /litre sugar. It receives its golden color by additions of caramel.

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Sambuca Molinari

       Sambuca Molinari

Producer               : Molinari, 

                               Civitavecchia - Italy
Category               : Liquor
Sub Category        : Sambuca
Alcohol Content    : 40%
Common Serve      : Straiht-Up, Ice, 

                                Flaming, 
                                Mix With Coke

Sambuca is an Italian Anis Liqueur (star anise and green anise) with 38% vol which also contains liuorices essence of roses as well as other herbs and spices.

The name Sambuca originates from word “Sambuco” a boats type of the saracem which was used to import spices from the orient during the mediaeval times.

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MALIBU

MALIBU  

• Producer               : International Distillers&Vintners
• Category               : Liqueur
• Alcohol Content    : 21%
• Famous Mixing      : Pina Colada, Jamaican coffee, Malibu Orange, Malibu Pineapple, Malibu Cherry , Pina Colada

Malibu is a Jamaican liqueur of white rum, sugar  and natural coconut extracts with 21%  alcohol.

Malibu Coconut is nowadays produce in Spain. In 1980 it’s was produced for the first time  as a clear coconut liqueur based on Caribbean white rum, with coconut. With 36 million bottles per year Malibu ranks within the top 3 liqueur worldwide.

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Brandy

Brandy 
The word came from Holland "brandewijn" (burn wine). Brandy made from distillation the juice of Wine. There many fruits can be produce to be a Brandy, for the example: Apricot Brandy, Cherry Brandy, Plum, Apple & etc. The county popular produced of brandy is Cognac, Armagnac - France.
Brandy From Distillation Of Apple: Brandy can also be made from fermented fruit (i.e., other than grapes) and from pomace. Pomace and fruit brandies are generally drunk unaged and are usually not coloured. Pomace (ultimately from Latin pomum 'apple') or marc is the solid remains of olives, grapes, or

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LICOR 43

Producer : Diego Samora, Cartagena
Category : Liqueur
Alcohol Vol. : 31% vol
Service suggestion : with Ice, Straight up, Ice with Fresh milk (no sugar)

Licor 43 is a Spanish liqueur of altogether 43 ingredients, which originate from the Mediterranean i.e. citrus fruits, Mediterranean herbs, floral essences vanilla and other herbs. Licor (Spanish word) 43 is apparently more than 2000 years old and is nowadays produced in Cartagena, Spain. During the maceration, herbs, spices, citrus fruits and their peels are soaked in neutral alcohol and remain in it for an extraction of several weeks. That the..

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Jagermeister

Jagermeister

Producer :

Mast-Jagermeister AG, Wolfenbuttel

Category : 

Bitter Alc. 

Alcohol Vol: 

35%vol 
Common Serve  :  

On the rock, Jager-Redbull, Jager –Cola, Jager+RedBull

Jagermeister is a Liqueur of herbs, with 35% vol. which also matures for 12 months in oak casks. Liqueurs of herbs a higher degree of sugar. For the production of Jagermeister 56 herbs fruits, woods, barks and roots are taken from almost every part of the world. Some of these are cinnamon bark, cloves, Ginger roots, saffron flowers, and coriander.

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Amareto Disaronno

• Producer : Fam. Rina, Saronno
• Category : Liqueurs
• Alcohol Content : 28%
• Common Serving : With Coke, 7-Up, Orange Juice, Coffee

Disaronno Original is an Italian liqueur of neutral alcohol, caramel and essence of 17 herbs and fruits which were soaked in apricot kernel oil. Since 1525 the recipe is unchanged. Essential parts of the recipe are almonds. Bernardo Luini, an artist of the Leonardo da Vincii academi was assigned to create a fresco of “the Adoration of the Magi” in the basilica of Disaronno. At that time Luini stayed in a hotel and was so fascianed about the beauty of the young landlady than the lent her face to the Madonna in that fresco. However without means she gratefully created a liqueur of brandy, apricot kernel oil and herbs. Thus the history of today’s “Disaronno Originale” began.

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Ziegler Alter Apfel

• Producer : Brenneri Ziegler, Freudenberg, France
• Category : Spirits
• Alcohol Vol : 43% vol
• Glass serve : Grappa Glass

Ziegler Alter Apfel (apple) is a spirits distilled of a fermented mash of apples. 15 kg apples are required for production of 70ml Ziegler Alter Apfel. For Ziegler Alter Apfel only gravensteiner apples from a German area called “Atlas Land” are used. This region is reclaimed marshland, south of the Elbe Hamburg and Lower Saxony.

In general only fully matured and undamaged fruits are used for the maturation of Ziegler fruits spirits. These fruits are drawn from German fruits farmers and other European suppliers. All growing areas are constantly under control in order to achieve the necessary quality of all Ziegler products.

After the distillation all products have to mature at least three years. Spirits of berry fruits and pomes for three years. Stones fruits at least five years. Classical products mature in stainless steel tanks Product of berries and Ziegler Rarities mature in carboy/demijohn in the rock baseman. Cigar Spirits in oak and chestnut casks. (pict. source: weinquelle.com)

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Balvenie Double Wood 12 year

• Producer : WilliamGrant&SonsGroup
• Category : Whiskey
• Sub category : Hiland Malt – Speyside
• Alcohol content : 43% vol

Balvenie is a malt whiskey from speyside region of the Highland, Schotland. Malt whiskey is a spirit distilled from a fermented barley malt mash matures in cask at least 3 years. Nearly all Malts are double distilled (pot-still), the raw mature is basically malted barley. The maturation 3 years is statutory , common malts mature at least 10 years , top products even substantially longer. The Balvenie Distillery is named after the famous castle “Balvenie” which adjacent to the distillery property. Balvenie double wood 12 years matures 12 years in former burbon casks therefore in American oak, and afterwards another 6 months in sherry cask.

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Carenal Mendoza Brandy

• Producer : Osborne,Jerez de la Fronters
• Category : Barndy
• Sub Category : Gran Reserva
• Alc. Content : 42% Vol

Cardenal Mendoza is a brandy de jerez originatis almost exclusively from the wine making reign of La Manca. The brandy has only mature in the sherry region of Jerez

Similar to Sherry, Brandy de Jerez also experiences the solera system. Wine of same kind but different age is stored one above each other in Oakwood barrels. In the bottom row matures the oldest wine and so on, on top the youngest of the wines. Each year a third is taken from the bottom barrel and refilled by a third of the consecutive of the barrel above just until the barrel of the top row is refilled with the new wine. The solera system achieves equal lasting quality and taste.

Cardenal mendoza is divided into three classifications according to the maturation by the Solera System:

Solera : by law 0.5 years de facto: 1.5years

Solera Reserva : by law 1year de facto: 3 years

Solera gran reserva : by law 3 years de facto: min 8 years

Cardenal mendoza is a Solera Gran Reserva classified brandy de Jerez and originates from Jerez de la Froneta.

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